Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Stockholm

Writer and Photographer at Freelance

@Hasselblad Heroine, Storyteller + Photographer + Believer. WROTE: @InEveryMirror @NotEnoughBook @LagomBook @DueNorthBook - RUN: @GeotravelMedia 🇳🇬 🇺🇸 🇸🇪

Articles

Everything is Not Enough by Lola Akinmade Akerstrom

Jul 4, 2024 | l8r.it | Lola Akinmade Åkerström |Carol Rifka Brunt |Eva Rice |Samuel Fisher

LoveReading Says About Press Reviews Author LoveReading Says Continuing the enthralling stories of three Black women navigating life, love, social prejudice and racism in Sweden that began In Every Mirror She’s Black, Lola Akinmade Akerstroem’s Everything is Not Enough is a riveting, razor-sharp follow-up. As the women face increasingly appalling challenges, their lives interlink in unexpected, transformational ways.
ENGLISH VERSION: Dagens Nyheter: Lola Akinmade Åkerström – “Sweden is the most open society run by the most private people” - Lola Akinmade

Jun 10, 2024 | lolaakinmade.com | Lola Akinmade |Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Here is the translation version of the feature interview that was published on June 8, 2024, by Dagens Nyheter (the Swedish equivalent of The New York Times). Text: Sanna Torén Björling – Translation: Lola Akinmade Åkerström – Photos: Anette Nantell & Josefine StenersenLola Akinmade Akerström’s books about being a Black woman in Sweden have received international prizes and a large audience, but have been snubbed by Swedish publishers. – I love Sweden, but it is not easy to live here.
Everything Is Not Enough

Apr 27, 2024 | audiobooks.com | Lola Akinmade Åkerström

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Can you guess the countries behind Eurovision’s most iconic songs?

Apr 16, 2024 | theclub.ba.com | Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Share on Facebook Twitter LinkIn Email As Malmö warms up for the world’s biggest song and dance extravaganza next month, we turn to the most memorable Eurovision entries to date. Question is, can you identify the origin country (and British Airways destination) from just the song? But first, your Eurovision fact file... What edition is this? This year marks the 68th Eurovision Song Contest. When is it happening? 7-11 May 2024. Who is this year’s host?
How This Swedish Proverb Is Shining A Light On Black Women's Mental Wellbeing

Jan 10, 2024 | ca.news.yahoo.com | Lola Akinmade Åkerström

If there is one stereotype of Black women that is the most damaging, and dare I say, the most dangerous to our collective mental wellbeing, it is the image of the “Strong Black Woman”. I’ve felt this trope deeply. In the hyper-aggressive way a dentist poked my gums, so I had to switch dentists. In the way gynaecologists prod too hard when examining me. In the way doctors talk over me because my self-advocacy is seen as belligerence.
My focus word for 2024

Jan 6, 2024 | lolaakinmade.com | Lola Akinmade |Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Every year, I pick out a focus word. A word that governs various aspects of my life that year in lieu of resolutions: Focus (2009), discipline (2010), growth (2011), nurture (2012), surrender (2013), challenge (2014), connect (2015), strength (2016), self-care (2017), evolve (2018), simplify (2019), energy (2020), release (2021), structure (2022), and grace (2023). I’ve started easing into my new years instead of hitting the ground running on January 1st. Slow and steady, guided by a word.
Reflecting on my year of grace

Dec 17, 2023 | lolaakinmade.com | Lola Akinmade |Lola Akinmade Åkerström

What a year. Wars. Unfathomable suffering. Hate. Bigotry. Genocides. Natural disasters. People dying way too young. Right-wing rising. Decades of trying to create equity eroding. Emotional and mental breakdown at every turn. After every news report. 2023 is certainly one I will never forget. I started the year with a month of rest. That was what has sustained me in addition to my tight family, close friends, and my faith in God. Taking each day one hour at a time.
Everything Is Not Enough: A Novel

Dec 11, 2023 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Award-winning author Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström’s highly anticipated sophomore novel, Everything Is Not Enough, is a unique gem of nuanced contemporary fiction that follows the lives of three Black women striving to settle in Stockholm. Despite their considerable talents and energy, they are relegated to the margins, their dreams threatened by a white-dominated society set up to prefer homogeneity.
Everything Is Not Enough

Nov 22, 2023 | audible.co.uk | Lola Akinmade Åkerström

The brilliant second audiobook from the acclaimed author of In Every Mirror She's Black follows three women as they try to navigate life, love, prejudice and privilege in Stockholm. Yasmiin cannot comprehend what the policeman is saying to her. Her friend in a coma? Attempted suicide? Discovering she's listed as next of kin, Yasmiin looks to her friend's past to try and understand her actions, uncovering fresh mysteries at every turn. All the while, her own life seems to be running off course.
The Uneasy Allure of Uaajeerneq

Nov 14, 2023 | hiddencompass.net | Lola Akinmade Åkerström |Colin Daileda |Karen Green

Support the Pathfinders honoring a Greenlandic tradition nearly lost to time. Photo Essay This story has been published in the 2023 Pathfinder Issue of Hidden Compass. While every story has a single byline, the issue is a collaborative effort. Storyteller proceeds from all patronage campaigns in this issue will go collectively to Team Tété on top of their article pay. Arnaq Petersen warns us.